Merce Cunningham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only way to do it is to do it.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dance #Way
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too...
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dance #Dancing #Discipline
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dance #Mean #Thinking
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dance #Wall #Museums
Falling is one of the ways of moving.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Moving #Fall #Way
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dance #Thinking #Transformation
There are no fixed points in space,
-- Merce Cunningham

#Space #Fixed
Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Light #Together #Elements
You have to love dancing to stick to it,
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dancing #Sticks
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Dancing #Discipline #Essentials
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
-- Merce Cunningham

#Giving #Students #Grades

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